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getcwd: drop the \\?\ prefix of a Windows working directory in one reader - #47480
A parent starts Bun on Windows in a directory spelled \\?\C:\dir. bun run entry.mjs fails with error: Module not found '\\?\C:\...\entry.mjs', and bun build --app with error: EINVAL reading "\\".
bun_core::getcwd (src/bun_core/util.rs:4054) keeps the prefix, and the module loader cuts such a path at the ?. bun_sys::getcwd (src/sys/lib.rs:4110) drops four units, also from \\?\UNC\server\share.
Cost: Linux .text is byte-identical. Windows size is not measured (Notes).
Notes
State of the proof. The Windows CI lanes are the only runtime proof.
Commit 1 (a636adaf74) has tests only. Build 135796 ran it on windows 11 aarch64 and windows 2019 x64. On both lanes the 5 cases that start in \\?\C:\... fail, and so do the \\?\UNC\ cases and the --app case. The 6 cases with the plain spelling pass.
bun test: error: Cannot find module '\\?\C:\...\a.test.ts' from '', 0 pass.
bun --preload ./preload.ts: error: Cannot find module '\\?\C:\...\preload.ts' from ''.
bun -e: import and require throw EINVAL reading "\\". import.meta.dir is \. Bun.main, path.resolve() and Bun.resolveSync keep the prefix, and process.cwd() does not. new Worker("./worker.ts") fails with Module not found.
process.cwd() from \\?\UNC\localhost\C$\...: UNC\localhost\C$\....
bun build --app ./app.ts: error: EINVAL reading "\\".
Commits 2 and 3 have the fix and more cases. The cases added in commit 3 have no run without the fix: a package.json script, bun install with both linkers, a volume GUID spelling, a junction, a child without cwd.
Build 135886 ran commit 3 (2afff40ef5). On windows 11 aarch64 and on windows 2019 x64: process.test.js has 201 pass and 0 fail, production.test.ts has 21 pass and 0 fail, bun-install.test.ts has 765 pass and 0 fail.
Commit 4 (11bebddf0e) changes tests only. The share cases and the volume GUID cases are now tests of their own, so the skip count of a lane shows whether it ran them.
Build 135907 ran commit 4. On both Windows lanes: process.test.js has 205 pass, 16 skip and 0 fail of 223 tests, production.test.ts has 21 pass and 0 fail, bun-install.test.ts has 765 pass and 0 fail.
The 16 skips are the skips of main. Build 135796 has the same 16 beside the 13 cases of commit 1, and all 13 ran there. So all 20 new process.test.js tests ran on both lanes, the share cases and the volume GUID cases included.
The new Windows tests are 23: 20 in process.test.js, 1 in production.test.ts, 2 in bun-install.test.ts.
Commit 5 (09b5ef8ef8) adds 4 Windows tests: 3 junction rows in fs.test.ts and a Node.js reference run in process.test.js. By reading, the 2 junction rows with the prefix fail on main.
Build 135958 ran commit 5. On both Windows lanes: process.test.js has 206 pass, 16 skip and 0 fail of 224 tests, fs.test.ts has 612 pass and 0 fail, production.test.ts has 21 pass and 0 fail, bun-install.test.ts has 765 pass and 0 fail. So the new Windows tests are 27, and all pass.
Build 135970 ran the head (35c849411d), which merges main (77b380dcaf). Both Windows lanes have the same counts for the four files, with 0 fail.
Each case now reads the OS working directory through GetCurrentDirectoryW (bun:ffi). A pass shows that the prefix reached the process and that Bun dropped it.
Linux: cargo test -p bun_paths --lib (36 tests, the classifier table included). test/internal/source-lints/windows-cwd-readers.test.ts fails on main (src/sys/lib.rs is a second reader) and passes here. cargo check --workspace --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc passes. The Windows-only cases were run on Linux with plain paths in place of the spellings.
History.#11953 (2024, Bun 1.1.13) reported a crash for bun run foo.mjs from a Rust parent. It was closed on 2026-08-07 as fixed on main. At that time the start directory came from bun_sys::getcwd. #34660 (the same day) and #32357 changed Arguments.rs and FileSystem::init to bun_core::getcwd, for the handling of a deleted directory. Both commits are in the tags bun-v1.4.0 to bun-v1.4.4 (git tag --contains). An earlier iteration of #40372 had this reader change (b589552020), and the branch was later redone without it. The first two commits credit its author.
Try not to use verbatim paths in Command::current_dir rust-lang/rust#138869 (in Rust 1.88.0, not in 1.87.0) makes Command::current_dir drop the prefix when GetFullPathNameW returns the plain spelling unchanged. So a Rust parent from 1.88 on does not pass the prefix to a child. Other parents still do: Bun.spawn({ cwd }), --cwd and process.chdir() are in the tests.
What Node does.process.cwd() is uv_cwd. libuv returns the text of GetCurrentDirectoryW with only a trailing \ removed (uv__cwd), and uv_chdir has a TODO about \\?\C:\. So Node keeps the prefix in process.cwd() and in path.resolve(). A row in process.test.js runs Node.js on both Windows lanes and expects that text, and it passes (build 135958). I did not run import.meta.dirname under Node.
Bun's process.cwd() on main already has no prefix, while path.resolve() has it (build 135796). Node's own test expects the two to be equal (test/js/node/test/parallel/test-path-resolve.js:27). With this PR they are equal again, without the prefix.
A module path with the prefix does not load, so the start directory cannot keep it.
Order against #45053.#45053 makes the loader keep a \\?\ module path whole. By reading, with only #45053 a process in a \\?\C:\dir directory loads its modules under keys with the prefix, while process.cwd() has none. In build 135796 the bun -e case already shows that shape: import.meta.dir is \. With this PR first, no key made from the working directory has the prefix.
The .bunx fast path of bun run <bin> (src/runtime/cli/run_command.rs:2727) reads the OS text. By reading, its path does not open with the prefix, and the slower path takes over.
process.report() (BunProcessReportObjectWindows.cpp:76) reports the OS text.
Three more readers of an OS path drop the prefix by shape, and stay as they are: fd_path_raw_w and the reader of the executable path (src/bun_core/util.rs:1293, :2736), and the GetFinalPathNameByHandle wrapper (src/sys/windows/mod.rs:913). Hardlinker.rs:74 names the working directory through get_fd_path_w(Fd::cwd()), which the lint does not see.
A lone surrogate in the name of the working directory: bun_sys::getcwd gives U+FFFD (copy_utf16_into_utf8, as from_w_path does on main), and bun_core::getcwd gives WTF-8. Main has the same difference.
Bun.spawn({ cwd: "\\\\?\\C:\\dir" }) passes the spelling to the child, as Node does.
By reading, a working directory with no plain spelling still cannot load modules. process.cwd() there changes from Volume{guid}\dir to the OS text \\?\Volume{guid}\dir. A test pins that text on both lanes.
By reading, a directory named like a DOS device (\\?\C:\x\nul), or with a trailing space after process.chdir(), gets its plain name, which is the text that process.cwd() has on main. Win32 reads that name as the device, or without the space.
From a share, only the process.cwd() text is tested.
fs.symlink junction.node_fs.rs joins a relative junction target to the working directory and puts \\?\ in front. The branch now keeps a prefix that the joined target already has.
A volume GUID working directory: the old four-unit cut made main correct by accident. The junction test for it ran on both lanes (build 135907).
A target, or a link path, spelled with \\?\, from any working directory: main gives libuv \\?\\\?\C:\real, and the junction holds \??\\?\C:\real, which names nothing. Now libuv gets \\?\C:\real. The rows in fs.test.ts cover it. I read the main half from the code and did not run it.
A share is not fixed here. From the OS directory \\?\UNC\localhost\C$\d, main gives libuv \\?\UNC\localhost\C$\d\sub\target and this PR gives \\?\\\localhost\C$\d\sub\target, as main does from the plain spelling of the share. The junction holds \??\UNC\... or \??\\localhost\.... Windows follows neither, because it does not support a junction to a share (junction.md:34, libuv fs.c:258-262). Four more places put \\?\ in front of a path with no case for a share, so one shared function is a separate change (Windows: not handling many UNC path cases #9071).
By reading, a link name with no directory (fs.symlinkSync("target", "link", "junction")) joins the target to <cwd>\link (node_fs.rs:8444). Main does the same.
A GetFullPathNameW check before the drop (considered, not built). Two review comments asked the reader to keep the prefix when Win32 reads the plain spelling as another path (dir., a path of MAX_PATH or more).
By the Windows documents, neither reaches the reader. Windows calculates the full path of a working directory when it sets one, and that calculation removes a trailing dot under \\?\ too (SetCurrentDirectory, file-path-formats.md:200, CPython's test_ntpath.py:1216). A longer working directory needs the long-path policy, and then Win32 takes the plain spelling.
The check would still see a DOS device name. There it keeps the prefix, and no module loads, as on main. After process.chdir() that is worse than main.
No Node.js run for import.meta.dirname. The reference row covers process.cwd() and path.resolve().
Measurements.
Linux x64 release (LTO), two builds in one directory with only src/ changed (main f7607a3d35 and d9237bdd87): .text is 108,798,697 bytes in both, and the sha256 of .text is equal. without_verbatim_prefix_w is not in the binary.
Rust call sites of GetCurrentDirectoryW: 3 on main, 2 here. The number of reads per process does not change.
Windows bun.exe size and the instruction count of one read: not measured. The Buildkite artifact store is not reachable from my machine, and I did not look for another route.
By reading, one read on Windows adds one slice pattern match and no allocation or system call.
no test proof · iteration 2 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/node/process/process.test.js, test/js/node/fs/fs.test.ts, test/cli/install/bun-install.test.ts, test/bake/dev/production.test.ts
Windows-only tests for a process that starts in, or changes into, a
directory spelled `\\?\C:\dir` or `\\?\UNC\server\share\dir`:
- `bun -e`, `--preload`, `--cwd`, `bun run <file>` and `bun test` name
every path from the plain spelling of the directory.
- `process.chdir()` into each spelling gives the plain `process.cwd()`.
- `bun build --app` builds.
Each case also runs from the plain spelling, as a control. The cases
with the prefix fail until the working directory readers drop it.
Co-authored-by: Dylan Conway <dylan.conway567@gmail.com>
The first commit (a636ada) has tests only. Build 135796 ran it on windows 11 aarch64 and on windows 2019 x64. On both lanes, the cases that start Bun in a directory spelled \\?\C:\... or \\?\UNC\... fail, and the cases with the plain spelling pass. bun run entry.mjs fails with error: Module not found '\\?\C:\...\entry.mjs'.
The fix is in d9237bd. Build 135970 ran the head (35c8494, which merges main). On both Windows lanes all 27 new Windows tests pass: process.test.js (206 pass, 0 fail), fs.test.ts (612 pass, 0 fail), production.test.ts (21 pass, 0 fail), bun-install.test.ts (765 pass, 0 fail). One of them runs Node.js: Node keeps the prefix in process.cwd() and path.resolve(), and Bun drops it.
Review: all threads have an answer. The reasons for the findings with no code change are in the threads and in the PR notes.
The diff is green. buildkite/bun is red because test/aot/engine/ir-6.test.ts fails. That test fails on main too, and this PR does not touch it. The other entries of build 135970 passed on a retry.
…reader
Windows keeps a `\\?\` prefix in the working directory of a process
that starts in, or changes into, a directory spelled with one.
`bun_core::getcwd` returned the prefix. `bun_sys::getcwd` dropped its
four units from any path, so `\\?\UNC\server\share` became
`UNC\server\share`. The start directory and `process.cwd()` disagreed
in one process, and a module path made from the start directory was
cut at the `?` by the module loader.
Both now read through `bun_core::getcwd_w`. It gives `C:\dir` for
`\\?\C:\dir` and `\\server\share` for `\\?\UNC\server\share`, and it
leaves a path that has no plain spelling as the OS gives it.
`fs.symlink` with the type `junction` joined a relative target to the
working directory and put `\\?\` in front. It now keeps a prefix that
the joined path already has.
A source lint names the three places that call `GetCurrentDirectoryW`.
Co-authored-by: Dylan Conway <dylan.conway567@gmail.com>
- Each case reads the working directory of the OS through
`GetCurrentDirectoryW`, so that a pass shows that the prefix arrived.
- New cases: a package.json script, a child without `cwd`,
`bun install` with both linkers, a volume GUID spelling, and a
junction to a relative target.
- The `bun build --app` case no longer moves the fixture of the test
before it.
A case that needs the administrative share or the GUID name of the
volume is now a separate test with `skipIf`. A run then shows in its
skip count whether these cases ran.
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Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the two refactor deltas in bun_sys::getcwd: the len > wbuf.len() -> len >= buf.len() guard only adds the case where GetCurrentDirectoryW reports a required size equal to the buffer (a too-small result that the old code would have sliced as if it were a path), and the new copy_utf16_into_utf8 into buf[..len-1] plus manual NUL cannot truncate or overrun, since a cwd of at most 32766 units expands to at most 98298 bytes and MAX_PATH_BYTES is 98302.
Extended reasoning...
The change moves the Windows cwd read into one bun_core::getcwd_w helper used by both bun_core::getcwd_len and bun_sys::getcwd, strips the \\?\ and \\?\UNC\ verbatim prefixes in place, and adjusts the junction-target path in node_fs.rs; it touches no auth or crypto surface. Two confirmed findings are posted inline, so a human look is already signalled; this note only records the guard-polarity and buffer-size concerns examined and ruled out.
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Walkthrough
Windows working-directory retrieval now removes supported verbatim prefixes and maps retrieval errors. Junction target construction preserves an existing long-path prefix. Windows tests cover path handling, process behavior, builds, and dependency installation from prefixed working directories.
Changes
Windows working-directory paths
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Summary
Working-directory retrieval and prefix normalization src/bun_core/util.rs, src/sys/lib.rs, src/paths/string_paths.rs, test/internal/source-lints/windows-cwd-readers.test.ts, src/runtime/node/node_process.rs
Windows working-directory retrieval uses shared helpers for path retrieval, prefix removal, and error mapping. Tests cover supported and unsupported spellings. A source lint checks direct API call counts.
Junction target construction retains an existing long-path prefix. Tests cover junction access and relative targets from plain and prefixed working directories.
Commands from prefixed working directories test/js/node/process/process.test.js, test/bake/dev/production.test.ts, test/cli/install/bun-install.test.ts
Windows tests cover cwd behavior across process startup and commands, including production builds and bun install from verbatim-prefix working directories.
Possibly related issues
oven-sh/bun#39357 — Reports bun install path failures with junctions and drive aliases. This PR adds install coverage from a prefixed working directory and changes junction target prefix handling, but does not establish a complete fix for drive-letter mismatches.
Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, alii
Merge Risk: Low · up to 09b5e
Ordinary prefixed working directories gain supported path spellings. A narrow concern remains for UNC directories containing significant trailing dots or spaces; merge with owner awareness of this unresolved edge case.
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Minor · Correct the getcwd_w comments: the prefix is dropped only for drive and… · node_process.rs:491
src/runtime/node/node_process.rs:491 Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
Correct the getcwd_w comments: the prefix is dropped only for drive and UNC paths.
The comment says bun_core::getcwd_w drops the \\?\ prefix unconditionally. It drops the prefix only for \\?\<drive>:\ and \\?\UNC\ paths. A \\?\Volume{...} path keeps its prefix. The landing guidance in .claude/docs/landing-prs.md requires comments to be true, so the comment needs the narrower wording.
📝 Suggested comment fix
- // Unlike uv_cwd(), it drops the `\\?\` prefix of a Windows working directory (`bun_core::getcwd_w`).+ // Unlike uv_cwd(), it drops the `\\?\` prefix of a drive or UNC working directory (`bun_core::getcwd_w`). A volume GUID path keeps its prefix.
The doc comment on getcwd_w in src/bun_core/util.rs (around lines 4096-4097) makes the same unconditional claim, "Unlike uv_cwd, this drops it." Apply the same correction there.
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Review comment at @src/runtime/node/node_process.rs at line 491:
Update the comments referencing bun_core::getcwd_w to state that it drops the
\\?\ prefix only for drive and UNC paths, while Volume GUID paths retain the
prefix; correct both the working-directory comment and the getcwd_w doc comment.
Minor · bun_sys::getcwd and bun_core::getcwd_len encode a lone surrogate in the… · lib.rs:4123
src/sys/lib.rs:4123 Minor · Functional Correctness · Poor tradeoff
bun_sys::getcwd and bun_core::getcwd_len encode a lone surrogate in the working directory differently.
bun_sys::getcwd converts the UTF-16 working directory with copy_utf16_into_utf8, which writes U+FFFD for each unpaired surrogate. bun_core::getcwd_len writes the same unit as 3-byte WTF-8. If GetCurrentDirectoryW returns an unpaired surrogate for a directory name, process.cwd() can return a string that does not name the same directory as a path built through bun_core::getcwd.
Note: this behaviour predates this PR (already present at merge base f7607a3d350b); the change keeps it reachable.
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Review comment at @src/sys/lib.rs at line 4123:
Update bun_sys::getcwd to encode the UTF-16 working directory using the same
WTF-8 behavior as bun_core::getcwd_len, preserving unpaired surrogates instead
of replacing them with U+FFFD so the written path matches the length
calculation.
Count every GetCurrentDirectoryW( call in the reader lint, not each matching line.
The call regex on line 15 has no g flag, so call.test(line) on line 34 matches at most once per line. The filter(...).length then counts lines, not calls. A second call on an allowlisted line leaves that file's count at 1, so a second reader on that line passes the test. Each allowlisted file has one call line today, so the allowlist stays valid with this change.
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Review comment at @test/internal/source-lints/windows-cwd-readers.test.ts at
line 31:
Update the reader-counting logic in the test using the `call` regex so it counts
every `GetCurrentDirectoryW(` occurrence, not just matching lines; avoid
stateful `test` behavior if adding the global flag, and keep the existing
comment-line exclusion and allowlist semantics.
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Review comments at @src/bun_core/util.rs:
- Around line 4123-4126: Update without_verbatim_prefix_w to preserve the
verbatim UNC prefix when any UNC component ends in a dot or space, while
continuing to remove it for ordinary UNC paths. Check the module-loader path so
this conditional spelling remains supported.
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Minor comments:
Review comments at @src/runtime/node/node_process.rs:
- Line 491: Update the comments referencing bun_core::getcwd_w to state that it
drops the \\?\ prefix only for drive and UNC paths, while Volume GUID paths
retain the prefix; correct both the working-directory comment and the getcwd_w
doc comment.
Review comments at @src/sys/lib.rs:
- Line 4123: Update bun_sys::getcwd to encode the UTF-16 working directory using
the same WTF-8 behavior as bun_core::getcwd_len, preserving unpaired surrogates
instead of replacing them with U+FFFD so the written path matches the length
calculation.
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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @test/internal/source-lints/windows-cwd-readers.test.ts:
- Line 31: Update the reader-counting logic in the test using the `call` regex
so it counts every `GetCurrentDirectoryW(` occurrence, not just matching lines;
avoid stateful `test` behavior if adding the global flag, and keep the existing
comment-line exclusion and allowlist semantics.
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…erence run
`fs.symlink` keeps a `\\?\` prefix that a junction target already has.
The new rows in fs.test.ts cover a target and a link path spelled with
the prefix. On main the target gets a second prefix.
A row in process.test.js runs Node.js in a `\\?\` working directory.
Node.js keeps the prefix in `process.cwd()` and `path.resolve()`, and
Bun drops it.
The source lint counts each call of `GetCurrentDirectoryW`, not each
line that has one. Two comments name the spellings that the reader
changes.
Answers to the three review notes that have no thread:
The comments at node_process.rs:491 and on getcwd_w. Reworded in 09b5ef8. They now name the two spellings that the reader changes.
A lone surrogate in bun_sys::getcwd. Not changed. from_w_path on main uses the same conversion (copy_utf16_into_utf8, src/paths/string_paths.rs:64), so process.cwd() keeps the text that it has on main. The two functions differ on main too, as the note says.
The lint counts lines. It counts each call now (09b5ef8).
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Related to #11953
Problem
\\?\C:\dir.bun run entry.mjsfails witherror: Module not found '\\?\C:\...\entry.mjs', andbun build --appwitherror: EINVAL reading "\\".bun_core::getcwd(src/bun_core/util.rs:4054) keeps the prefix, and the module loader cuts such a path at the?.bun_sys::getcwd(src/sys/lib.rs:4110) drops four units, also from\\?\UNC\server\share.Fix
bun_core::getcwd_w. It givesC:\dirand\\server\share, as Bun's other readers do. Any other path stays whole.fs.symlinkkeeps a\\?\that a junction target has.Background
\\?\is the Win32 long-path prefix. A process started in such a spelling keeps it as its working directory. Rust'sfs::canonicalizegives one (Notes).SetCurrentDirectoryW(children inherit it), aGetFullPathNameWcheck (Notes).Downsides
path.resolve(),Bun.mainandimport.meta.dirlose the prefix. Node keeps it inprocess.cwd()andpath.resolve(). This differs on purpose.\\?\Volume{guid}\dir), an explicit\\?\specifier (Preserve Windows namespace module keys and UNC resolution errors #45053), acmd.exechild withoutcwd. A junction from a\\?\UNC\directory holds other text (Notes)..textis byte-identical. Windows size is not measured (Notes).Notes
State of the proof. The Windows CI lanes are the only runtime proof.
a636adaf74) has tests only. Build 135796 ran it onwindows 11 aarch64andwindows 2019 x64. On both lanes the 5 cases that start in\\?\C:\...fail, and so do the\\?\UNC\cases and the--appcase. The 6 cases with the plain spelling pass.bun run entry.mjs:error: Module not found '\\?\C:\...\entry.mjs'andnote: Cannot read directory "\\?": EINVAL. This is the scenario of Bun v1.1.13 Windows x86_64 crashes when being called by another program using UNC paths #11953.bun test:error: Cannot find module '\\?\C:\...\a.test.ts' from '', 0 pass.bun --preload ./preload.ts:error: Cannot find module '\\?\C:\...\preload.ts' from ''.bun -e:importandrequirethrowEINVAL reading "\\".import.meta.diris\.Bun.main,path.resolve()andBun.resolveSynckeep the prefix, andprocess.cwd()does not.new Worker("./worker.ts")fails withModule not found.process.cwd()from\\?\UNC\localhost\C$\...:UNC\localhost\C$\....bun build --app ./app.ts:error: EINVAL reading "\\".bun installwith both linkers, a volume GUID spelling, a junction, a child withoutcwd.2afff40ef5). Onwindows 11 aarch64and onwindows 2019 x64:process.test.jshas 201 pass and 0 fail,production.test.tshas 21 pass and 0 fail,bun-install.test.tshas 765 pass and 0 fail.11bebddf0e) changes tests only. The share cases and the volume GUID cases are now tests of their own, so the skip count of a lane shows whether it ran them.process.test.jshas 205 pass, 16 skip and 0 fail of 223 tests,production.test.tshas 21 pass and 0 fail,bun-install.test.tshas 765 pass and 0 fail.process.test.jstests ran on both lanes, the share cases and the volume GUID cases included.process.test.js, 1 inproduction.test.ts, 2 inbun-install.test.ts.09b5ef8ef8) adds 4 Windows tests: 3 junction rows infs.test.tsand a Node.js reference run inprocess.test.js. By reading, the 2 junction rows with the prefix fail on main.process.test.jshas 206 pass, 16 skip and 0 fail of 224 tests,fs.test.tshas 612 pass and 0 fail,production.test.tshas 21 pass and 0 fail,bun-install.test.tshas 765 pass and 0 fail. So the new Windows tests are 27, and all pass.35c849411d), which merges main (77b380dcaf). Both Windows lanes have the same counts for the four files, with 0 fail.GetCurrentDirectoryW(bun:ffi). A pass shows that the prefix reached the process and that Bun dropped it.cargo test -p bun_paths --lib(36 tests, the classifier table included).test/internal/source-lints/windows-cwd-readers.test.tsfails on main (src/sys/lib.rsis a second reader) and passes here.cargo check --workspace --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvcpasses. The Windows-only cases were run on Linux with plain paths in place of the spellings.History. #11953 (2024, Bun 1.1.13) reported a crash for
bun run foo.mjsfrom a Rust parent. It was closed on 2026-08-07 as fixed on main. At that time the start directory came frombun_sys::getcwd. #34660 (the same day) and #32357 changedArguments.rsandFileSystem::inittobun_core::getcwd, for the handling of a deleted directory. Both commits are in the tags bun-v1.4.0 to bun-v1.4.4 (git tag --contains). An earlier iteration of #40372 had this reader change (b589552020), and the branch was later redone without it. The first two commits credit its author.Command::current_dirrust-lang/rust#138869 (in Rust 1.88.0, not in 1.87.0) makesCommand::current_dirdrop the prefix whenGetFullPathNameWreturns the plain spelling unchanged. So a Rust parent from 1.88 on does not pass the prefix to a child. Other parents still do:Bun.spawn({ cwd }),--cwdandprocess.chdir()are in the tests.What Node does.
process.cwd()isuv_cwd. libuv returns the text ofGetCurrentDirectoryWwith only a trailing\removed (uv__cwd), anduv_chdirhas a TODO about\\?\C:\. So Node keeps the prefix inprocess.cwd()and inpath.resolve(). A row inprocess.test.jsruns Node.js on both Windows lanes and expects that text, and it passes (build 135958). I did not runimport.meta.dirnameunder Node.process.cwd()on main already has no prefix, whilepath.resolve()has it (build 135796). Node's own test expects the two to be equal (test/js/node/test/parallel/test-path-resolve.js:27). With this PR they are equal again, without the prefix.Order against #45053. #45053 makes the loader keep a
\\?\module path whole. By reading, with only #45053 a process in a\\?\C:\dirdirectory loads its modules under keys with the prefix, whileprocess.cwd()has none. In build 135796 thebun -ecase already shows that shape:import.meta.diris\. With this PR first, no key made from the working directory has the prefix.Left as they are, on purpose.
from_w_path(src/paths/string_paths.rs:60) still drops four units from any\\?\path at its 16 other call sites. Remove get_fd_path: derive paths from cwd and what was opened, not from fds #38365 has a change for its\\?\UNC\form..bunxfast path ofbun run <bin>(src/runtime/cli/run_command.rs:2727) reads the OS text. By reading, its path does not open with the prefix, and the slower path takes over.process.report()(BunProcessReportObjectWindows.cpp:76) reports the OS text.fd_path_raw_wand the reader of the executable path (src/bun_core/util.rs:1293,:2736), and theGetFinalPathNameByHandlewrapper (src/sys/windows/mod.rs:913).Hardlinker.rs:74names the working directory throughget_fd_path_w(Fd::cwd()), which the lint does not see.cwdinherits the OS directory (js_bun_spawn_bindings.rs:1095, posix_spawn fails with ENOENT when process cwd is renamed to an invalid inode #33819). A Bun child reports the plain spelling.cmd.exerefuses such a directory and runs in the Windows directory, as Bun v1.1.13 Windows x86_64 crashes when being called by another program using UNC paths #11953 quotes. Main has this for every start that loads there. More programs can reach it now, because a start with a relative entry loads. libuv givesCreateProcessWthe text ofGetCurrentDirectoryWwhen a child has nocwd(process.c:957-977).bun_sys::getcwdgives U+FFFD (copy_utf16_into_utf8, asfrom_w_pathdoes on main), andbun_core::getcwdgives WTF-8. Main has the same difference.Bun.spawn({ cwd: "\\\\?\\C:\\dir" })passes the spelling to the child, as Node does.process.cwd()there changes fromVolume{guid}\dirto the OS text\\?\Volume{guid}\dir. A test pins that text on both lanes.\\?\C:\x\nul), or with a trailing space afterprocess.chdir(), gets its plain name, which is the text thatprocess.cwd()has on main. Win32 reads that name as the device, or without the space.process.cwd()text is tested.?in a POSIX path is the same loader cut (bun testfails while searching for test files if path contains '?' #7928, Decide in_resolvewhether a?is part of a path or starts a query #36627, bun -e: keep the whole path of the entry module when the cwd has a?#45048, Resolve a module's imports from the path it was loaded from, not from its ?query key #41929).\\?\C:\dirforC:\dir#47469 adds a parser for the same two roots inbun_paths, for the recursive mkdir.fs.symlinkjunction.node_fs.rsjoins a relative junction target to the working directory and puts\\?\in front. The branch now keeps a prefix that the joined target already has.\\?\, from any working directory: main gives libuv\\?\\\?\C:\real, and the junction holds\??\\?\C:\real, which names nothing. Now libuv gets\\?\C:\real. The rows infs.test.tscover it. I read the main half from the code and did not run it.\\?\UNC\localhost\C$\d, main gives libuv\\?\UNC\localhost\C$\d\sub\targetand this PR gives\\?\\\localhost\C$\d\sub\target, as main does from the plain spelling of the share. The junction holds\??\UNC\...or\??\\localhost\.... Windows follows neither, because it does not support a junction to a share (junction.md:34, libuvfs.c:258-262). Four more places put\\?\in front of a path with no case for a share, so one shared function is a separate change (Windows: not handling many UNC path cases #9071).fs.symlinkSync("target", "link", "junction")) joins the target to<cwd>\link(node_fs.rs:8444). Main does the same.A
GetFullPathNameWcheck before the drop (considered, not built). Two review comments asked the reader to keep the prefix when Win32 reads the plain spelling as another path (dir., a path ofMAX_PATHor more).\\?\too (SetCurrentDirectory, file-path-formats.md:200, CPython's test_ntpath.py:1216). A longer working directory needs the long-path policy, and then Win32 takes the plain spelling.process.chdir()that is worse than main.Command::current_dir(Try not to use verbatim paths inCommand::current_dirrust-lang/rust#138869), which checks a path that the user gives, before Windows has set it.Self-review, the 8 not done. The first review raised 23 concerns and the second 26.
from_w_pathis not changed here: Remove get_fd_path: derive paths from cwd and what was opened, not from fds #38365 owns that function's change, and I cannot run its 16 Windows call sites.process.report()keeps the OS text: Keep the process's working directory in one place, bun_core::cwd #40372 lists it that way.bun build --appcase stays in this PR. It is the command of the first report, and it no longer moves the fixture of another test.bun run <bin>.Related to. Its scenario fails again on main (thebun run entry.mjscase above). The issue is not mine to reopen.import.meta.dirname. The reference row coversprocess.cwd()andpath.resolve().Measurements.
src/changed (mainf7607a3d35andd9237bdd87):.textis 108,798,697 bytes in both, and the sha256 of.textis equal.without_verbatim_prefix_wis not in the binary.GetCurrentDirectoryW: 3 on main, 2 here. The number of reads per process does not change.bun.exesize and the instruction count of one read: not measured. The Buildkite artifact store is not reachable from my machine, and I did not look for another route.no test proof · iteration 2 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/node/process/process.test.js, test/js/node/fs/fs.test.ts, test/cli/install/bun-install.test.ts, test/bake/dev/production.test.ts